Texas cliffhanger home goes up in flames

The owners of a vacant luxury house teetering on a crumbling 75-foot cliff over a Central Texas lake decided to burn the house and clear the lot of the debris.

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Luxury home torched

The first option was to wrap the home with a large net and then pull it away from the edge of the cliff so that the debris could be safely removed from the site. That option was determined to infeasible, leading engineers to consider the second option: burning the home to the ground.